Rijkaard’s road to recovery

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EVERY FAN FOLLOWS TWO TEAMS: THE victorious dream team, who sweep all before them and play like a selection of all-time great Brazilians, and the stumbling, fumbling real team, who miss sitters, fall over their feet and whose pinpoint passes go straight into touch. Nowhere are the symptoms of this peculiar form of schizophrenia more pronounced than in Barcelona, the spiritual home of fantasy football. For Barça fans it is beyond question that, with 16 league titles and a European Cup to their name, the club is up there among the greatest. The only problem is that Real Madrid, with